Faith and Facts: Where to Draw the Line?
Interesting juxtaposition in the news today: the Roman Catholic pontiff steps down, Stephanie Nolen writes about the biggest religious event in the world and Paul Krugman’s column is about “The…
February 2013
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, February 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, February 11, 2013: Legal Skills Prof Blog: Prof says legal ed. “scam bloggers” are reason applications have…
Marching To Oblivion
Republicans must be furious with David Frum. The man who wrote George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” speech is increasingly at odds with his party. On Saturday he wrote that…
"…a bombastic partisan apologist for the prime minister "
The above is one of the descriptions offered of the much beleaguered ‘PEI’ Senator Mike Duffy in a trenchant assessment written by the Star’s Tim Harper in today’s edition. Harper…
CivicOpen: New Name, Old Idea
The other day Zac Townsend published a piece, “Introducing the idea of an open-source suite for municipal governments,” laying out the case for why cities should collaboratively create open source…
LED Street Lights Save Los Angeles Millions
Four years ago Los Angeles decided to change its street lighting to LEDs and the results have come in and the savings are phenomenal. They have converted a little over…
Conservatives Benefit From Scattergun Opposition
A new poll from Nanos gives more statistical weight to the “co-operation” crowd amongst the opposition parties. Particularly striking, the results in vote rich Ontario, which show divided opposition to…
The next Bishop of Rome
I’m still a bit stunned by this. A Pope resigning? Apparently that hasn’t happened in 500 years. I am a hopeful (and church-going) Irish Catholic. As such, I am hopeful…
Abacus Ontario Poll: 33% PC, 31% NDP, 30% OLP
Abacus Data released a new provincial poll for Ontario, following up Innovative’s earlier release as the second post-Wynne win poll. Much like Innovative, we see a Liberal jump – though…
Here’s our list for the new Wynne cabinet
Kathleen Wynne – Premier, Minister of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs Deb Matthews – Minister of Health, Deputy Premier Charles Sousa – Minister of Finance Laurel Broten – Minister of…
The Pope’s Resignation: Listen here
Link His voice still sounds strong and vigorous. He did finish his life of Jesus recently — perhaps he felt now is time?
Welcome to the Dark Side
I was a bit surprised by this part of Harper’s column: “To Ottawa-based journalists, Duffy betrayed the tribe, insulting those of us who believe our job is to try to…
5615…I Am Roman Catholic; I Need A Job
CFRA plus every other news outlet in the solar system are reporting that Benedict the 16 is packing it in. Hello, what about me? WFDS
Still Betting Against A Spring Election
The Tories came in with 33% support of decided voters while NDP’s attracted 31% and the Liberal’s 30%. The poll of 1,020 people — conducted Feb. 6-8 — found 16%…
Shuffling
Star: Kathleen Wynne picked Charles Sousa as finance minister after leadership runner-up Sandra Pupatello spurned overtures to return to politics, the Star has learned. And: The rookie leader was forced…
Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise: I Sense A Disaster Of Hysteric Proportions
Last year, the Sun News Network managed to con a few pathetic souls into forking out $1,050 for a $400 weekend up in Muskoka, the extra money being for the…
The Pope
Wow. This will tend to be the big news of the day, I think.
The Sarcastic Cyborg Debriefs
Is this thing on? Seriously. Is it on? I’m not getting any neural feedback. You humans are so odd. You are human aren’t you? Why don’t you just implant a…
Zorg Report 2013-02-11 06:24:00
The ever-incredibly depressing Jian Ghomeshi treedux Well, once more into the breach. There was 2011, there was 2012, and now there is 2013. It is as if I just have…
The Latest Candidate Who Never Was #nlpoli
CBC news reported last week that Scott Simms won;t be pursuing the provincial Liberal leadership. That’s no surprise because the federal member of parliament was never really thinking about becoming…